[mythtv-users] Backend DB migration--replace or just restore?

[DryHeat122]

Bill thanks for all the advice.  I'm really grateful.  I have started over
just to get back to square one and undo anything I have screwed up.  I have
two questions about xmltv I will post on the other thread.  Re
installation:  Should I run everything--i.e. mythtv-setup, xmltv config--as
user mythtv rather than as user steve?  I'm thinking the answer is yes and
this is where I started developing problems before.

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On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 1:11 PM Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/25/20 2:58 PM, DryHeat122 wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:41 PM DryHeat122 <dryheat122 at gmail.com
> <mailto:dryheat122 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:37 PM Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com
> <mailto:keemllib at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         On 7/25/20 2:26 PM, DryHeat122 wrote:
> >         [snip]
> >
> >         That's *perfect*, maybe. The entries in ~ and ~mythtv should be
> symbolic links to
> >         the one in /etc/mythtv. I'm asking because it's common for one
> of those links to
> >         be broken and be replaced by a file and I've never been able to
> find out why.
> >
> >         This please:
> >
> >             ls -ld /etc/mythtv/config.xml {~,~mythtv}/.mythtv/config.xml
> >
> >
> >     -rw-rw---- 1 mythtv mythtv 452 Jul 25 07:54 /etc/mythtv/config.xml
> >     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    22 Jul 25 07:54
> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml -> /etc/mythtv/config.xml
> >     -rw-rw-r-- 1 steve  steve  565 Jul 25 11:23
> /home/steve/.mythtv/config.xml
> >
> > ...You know, I'm thinking the mistake I made was not installing the OS
> as user mythtv, and maybe I should just start over and do that.
>
>
> I wouldn't start over. Note that /home/steve/.mythtv/config.xml is a file,
> not a
> symbolic like like /home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml is. Also note that the
> two
> files have different sizes. This *can* be OK as long as the DB credentials
> are
> the same. This is where folks get in trouble. Common report is that the
> backend
> runs OK, but the user can't start the frontend ('cause it connect to the
> DB.)
>
> I'd rm /home/steve/.mythtv/config.xml and link it to /etc/mythtv/config.xml
>
>    ln -s /etc/mythtv/config.xml /home/steve/.mythtv/config.xml
>
> *Assuming the backend is running OK*, proving that the data in
> /etc/mythtv/config.xml
> is correct.
>
> --
> Bill
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